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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5880 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 113 of 182 28 November 2008 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
Indeed? I look forward to it. Thanks for taking the initiative. I know there are many who try to keep the Multilingual Lounge going and those like JW and Alvinho had the right idea to group languages together under one thread. It runs to a degree but quickly loses steam. I can only help in one language -- leider! That will change after TAC ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6004 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish | Message 114 of 182 28 November 2008 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
On most windows versions there is an on-screen keyboard in the Accessibility section of the start menu. You can use it with you mouse or you could use it as reference if you prefer using the keyboard. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6498 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 115 of 182 29 November 2008 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||
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I have discovered that it is OK to make log in other languages (I knew already that some logs were in Nonenglish, but thought that it was illegal). So now I'm going to transfer my 'old' log (from yesterday) to its logical place in the Log forum. The new address is
a new multiconfused log 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6265 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 116 of 182 29 November 2008 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Iversen, you may like Tavultesoft Keyman to type Greek. There is a keyboard that allows you to type the corresponding Latin letter (e. g. D for Delta, A for Alpha, etc.) and it outputs the Greek letter. So using that keyboard, you just need to learn the position of Psi and the letters that don't have a corresponding Latin letter. I find it very helpful and I can type Greek almost as quickly as English.
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| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6806 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 117 of 182 30 November 2008 at 3:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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You may have noticed some TAC logs have "#lal" in the title. This is to identify the people who hang out in the #learnanylanguage irc channel on irc.freenode.net. Come and say hi! Edited by dmg on 30 November 2008 at 3:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6241 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 118 of 182 02 December 2008 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||
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A question regarding the "rules" of the challenge: is it required that we keep times in our log, or not? Or is it alright if we just update about what we're doing, what we've covered, etc.?
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| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6645 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 119 of 182 17 December 2008 at 1:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Edit:
My goals have changed pretty drastically. I've been debating this for a while, but I'm putting Chinese on hold for a while. Several things helped push me to this side of the fence, but anyway, I'll be focusing on Japanese now. I still intend to learn Chinese to fluency, but I'm going to wait a couple years. I'm more or less following the AJATT method, and my progress thread will be here. Edited by OneEye on 02 January 2009 at 2:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| charlmartell Super Polyglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6039 days ago 286 posts - 298 votes Speaks: French, English, German, Luxembourgish*, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 120 of 182 17 December 2008 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||
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And I'm in as well.
I'll up my Italian from "basic" fluency to "advanced", should be feasible as I've gone from zero to basic in the 7-month TAC 2008. I'll try for "advanced" in Russian as well but, while Italian is my 5th Latin related language, Russian was my first incursion into Slave territory. I'm definitely going to listen to Anna Karenina, now that I've found my love for well-read audiobooks using mp3 players. I'll re-listen to "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha", but in the correct order this time. I could never understand what people saw in that book, now I know and love it, enough to want to listen to it all again, with more attention to detail. Not for the story, but for the thoughts and the marvellous language with its oldfashioned charm. Improving from intermediate to "basic" fluency: Hungarian (I'm not far off), Japanese and Chinese (listening to start with, NOT reading) and possibly Dutch (passive grammar and reading are at basic/advanced level anyway, listening and speaking are not) and Swedish (very, very rusty, but should come back fastish). And, should I get my hands on some spare time, like a one-week-challenge for something new, modern Greek. I know a fair amount of ancient, so modern should come as light relief, grammar being about 10x easier. I've collected a lot of stuff, just in case. We'll see how it goes. My whole TAC 2009 looks much more ambitious than it really is as I have a rather solid base to build up on, in all of my projects. And I'm going to concentrate on listening, for meaning, not for word recognition or grammar practice. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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